Andy Adame, a spokesperson for US Border Patrol, said in a
statement issued soon afterward that the incident had indeed
occurred and that the two government agents targeted were not
injured.

The incident occurred early Thursday around 100 yards north of
the US/Mexico border, Adame said, around eight miles southwest of
the Village of San Miguel on the Tohono O'odham Indian Nation.

According to the spokesmen, the personnel on board the Mexican
military chopper were in the midst of a drug interdiction
operation at the time of the event. Art del Cueto, the president
of the Tucson sector Border Patrol union, told local news network
KVOA that Mexican officials contacted US
authorities soon after and apologized for the incident. The event
is now under investigation, Adame added.

Also this week, del Cuerto, the union president, told KVOA that
law enforcement officials on the border are in the midst of
dealing with “probably the most notorious, dangerous, drug
organizations to ever walk this earth.”

"They're dealing with the criminal element; they're dealing
with somebody who is accustomed to violence," Adame told
KVOA. "Those are the people the parents
are putting their children's lives into the hands of."

Previously, the US Department of Homeland Security has reported
that Mexican police or troops have crossed over the border around
300 times during the last decade, and were armed in around half
of those incidents, according to the Washington Times.

RT reported earlier this week that the Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee on DHS green-lighted more than $47
billion this week to go towards that agency as part of a request
made for funding in fiscal year 2015 that largely calls for
increasing homeland security’s border operations, including by
way of the installation of new facial recognition technology.